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SRC to Provide Computing Solutions for PI TrackR Program

April 28, 2008

 

SRC has announced that it has been selected to provide processors for the Precision Image Tracking and Registration (PI TrackR) program developed by the Air Force Research Lab’s (AFRL) Sensors Directorate. SRC’s COTS Portable MAPstations will be flown on-board small UAVs with high resolution cameras connected directly to the MAP processor’s GPIOX port, providing real-time high pixel count imaging and metadata to track pilot/operator identified targets.

 

 

SRC Computers Integrates Atrato Velocity1000 to Surpass Data Access Requirements in HPC Environments
First Customer Deployment Sets New Benchmark in Sustained Bandwidth

March 25, 2008

 

SRC has integrated the Atrato V1000 into its Hi-Bar interconnected system solutions that utilize SRC’s MAP processor, providing unmatched capabilities to randomly access terabytes of data for customers in defense and intelligence, scientific and academic research, medical imaging, and financial sectors. 

 

SRC Demonstrates New MAP Processor on AMD64 Platform at Supercomputing 2007

November 12, 2007

 

SRC demonstrated its implementation of a Black-Scholes double precision floating point algorithm, one of the most important mathematical tools in modern finance, on its newest Series I MAP reconfigurable processor at the Supercomputing 2007 show in Reno, Nev.

 

SRC Selects Altera for Next-Generation MAP Processor

November 12, 2007

 

Altera Corporation today announced that SRC Computers, Inc. has chosen the Stratix® II FPGA device for their new Series I MAP reconfigurable processor module used in high- performance computing applications such as financial, defense, energy and biometrics. Systems built with the Series I MAP are part of the SRC-7 product line that can accelerate applications such as Black-Scholes or medical imaging by over 30 times compared to current dual-core CPUs.

 

SRC COMPUTERS Chosen by Lockheed Martin for U.S. Army Program
SRC to Provide Both Ground and Airborne Computing Systems for TRACER

August 15, 2007

 

SRC has announced that it has been chosen by Lockheed Martin to provide both ground and airborne processing solutions for the U.S. Army’s Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment Enabled Radar (TRACER) program. The $40 million TRACER contract was awarded to Lockheed Martin by the Army in May of this year and incorporates low frequency synthetic aperture radar systems into Predator class unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

 

SRC ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR AMD TORRENZA INITIATIVE
Testing Underway with HP Servers

June 18, 2007

 

SRC has announced its support for AMD’s Torrenza initiative and will incorporate its heterogeneous IMPLICIT+EXPLICIT™ architecture and Carte programming environment into servers with AMD microprocessors.

 

NCSA ADDS SIMULINK PROGRAMMING CAPABILITY TO SRC'S PORTABLE MAPSTATION
Results Demonstrated in Two Recent Conference Presentations

October 10, 2006

 

Researchers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), in collaboration with SRC Computers, Inc., have developed a technique that allows developers to use the MathWorks' Simulink platform to program an SRC reconfigurable computing system.

 

NCSA TO ADD MATLAB / SIMULINK PROGRAMMING CAPABILITY TO SRC’S RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING SYSTEMS

May 10, 2006

 

SRC Computers has announced that it has entered into a joint development agreement with NCSA™ (National Center for Supercomputing Applications). The result of the collaboration will describe in detail how to utilize MATLAB/Simulink, Xilinx DSP System Generator, and the SRC Carte™ programming environment macro capability to implement Simulink fixed-point designs on SRC’s reconfigurable MAP® processors.

 

SRC ANNOUNCES FIRST ANNUAL USER MEETING

March 2, 2006

 

SRC has announced its first annual User Meeting. The 2006 event will be held on July 11 at the NCSA facilities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

 

SRC COMPUTERS LAUNCHES ITS NEXT-GENERATION RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING SYSTEM -- THE SRC-7

August 25, 2005

 

SRC Computers has announced the availability of its SRC-7 reconfigurable computing system.

 

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY PURCHASES THEIR SECOND SRC SYSTEM

October 19, 2004

 

SRC Computers has shipped the latest version of its SRC-6 computer system to George Washington University (GWU). This new MAP-based system with Hi-Bar® Switch and Common Memory has 10 times the performance of GWU’s existing SRC system, which was delivered just 2 years ago.

 

SRC COMPUTERS AWARDED AFRL SENSORS DIRECTORATE CONTRACT

September 7, 2004

 

SRC Computers has been awarded a development contract to create a miniaturized computer system based on their Unified Computing Architecture™ (UCA) and reconfigurable MAP processor for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Sensors Directorate. The system will initially be used to support a variety of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) and other Air Force sensor applications.

 

“Projecting” images in radar and medical applications

DSP-FPGA.com

April 2008

 

Filtered backprojection is finding its way into both radar and medical imaging applications and is well served by FPGAs to handle a portion of the algorithm. The results are outstanding.

 

CRAY’S LEGACY - COMPUTER DEVELOPER'S IDEAS THRIVE

The Gazette

November 13, 2006

 

Although he died a decade ago, supercomputer developer Seymour Cray’s legacy lives on through the technology he developed at SRC Computers, Inc. The Colorado Springs- based company has spent more than $60 million to bring the power of a supercomputer to a much broader market.

 

HIGH TECH LESSON IN U.S. BUSINESS - LOCAL COMPANIES SHARE KNOWLEDGE WITH RUSSIANS

The Gazette

August 22, 2006

 

Eleven Russian delegates have been in Colorado Springs for the past 11 days touring local computer companies, including SRC Computers, to glean knowledge to take back to their country.

 

ARE FPGAS A DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR HPC?

HPCwire

February 24, 2006

 

HPC is always keen to exploit innovation if it provides real performance gains, but are FPGAs the next disruptive technology to deliver for HPC?

 

RECONFIGURABLE PROCESSING DESIGN SUITS UAV RADAR APPS
UAV-based radar electronics require supercomputing performance in a compact space. A reconfigurable computer architecture offers the compute density to fit the bill

COTS Journal

October/November 2005

 

Engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and SRC Computers demonstrate the performance gain of a two-dimensional Synthetic Aperture Radar (2-D SAR) backprojection algorithm running on SRC’s Compact MAP™ processor architecture compared to a MATLAB and C implementation of the algorithm.

 

SRC CODE; 'TIS A FAR, FAR BETTER COMPILER

FPGA & Programmable Logic Journal

July 2005

 

The author examines researchers and engineers from two distinct camps with distinct goals attacking the same technical challenge from two different directions. The two camps meet at the FPGA.

 

APPLICATION DEFINED PROCESSORS

Linux Journal

December 2004

 

This article explains RC, examines SRC systems that implement RC, and shows the performance advantage RC provides over traditional microprocessors.

 

HIGH-FLYING COMPUTER PROCESSING

Homeland Science & Technology Journal

November 2004

 

SRC has been awarded a development contract by the AFRL that addresses a long-standing challenge of creating a powerful miniaturized computer system for use on-board UAVs. The resulting mobile computer is expected to perform 96 Gflops with more than 6 Gbytes/s of direct sensor I/O bandwidth in a single computer weighing as little as 10 pounds.

 

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